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Campus Watch Weekly Update

April 11, 2022

Campus Watch reports the following from April 5 - April 11, 2022:

Campus Watch Research

Palestinian Feminist Profs Call for Love, Preach Hate and Socialism (Andrew E. Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63161/palestinian-profs-call-for-love-preach-hate

Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS - And Fails Spectacularly (A.J. Caschetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63158/nobel-prize-winner-tries-to-make-the-case-for-bds

Middle East Studies in the News

On the antisemitism and anti-Zionism at UCLA’s Israel Studies program (incl. Dov Waxman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63165/a-beckoning-for-ucla-israel-studies-incl-dov

Universities urged to drop MESA over its BDS endorsement: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63160/12-universities-urged-to-drop-middle-east-studies

Harvard University University of California, Berkeley New York University Columbia University University of Chicago Northeastern University University of Michigan Georgetown University Yale University Brandeis University Middle East Studies Association (MESA) University of California, Los Angeles University of Pennsylvania Title VI University of California, Santa Barbara Rutgers University University of Arizona University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) George Washington University Noura Erakat
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Lustick has a long history of anti-Israel scholarship and activism. Image: University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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